Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 182 Tianjin is Developing

Wei Xu and Wang Zhenru arrived with nearly a thousand people and more or less various supplies. For Li Tai, supplies were secondary, but the arrival of more than 1000 high-quality talents really solved Li Tai's urgent needs.

Li Tai didn't hesitate, and immediately summoned Li Chunfeng over, and Li Chunfeng and Wang Zhenru were very happy when they met.

After all, the two were originally in charge of the corvee in Gaoling. As for Wei Xu, because he was considered a leading soldier, he had nothing to chat with Li Chunfeng and Wang Zhenru, so Li Tai greeted them personally.

They didn't say anything on the first day, but they had a good meal together, but on the second day, Li Tai immediately greeted Wei Xu and Wang Zhenru.

After all, with the arrival of Wang Zhenru, it is natural to build a large-scale infrastructure, and this large-scale infrastructure itself can absorb a large number of people.

For Li Tai, the most important thing is to find a way to absorb the entire population around Youzhou.

"True Confucianism, Wei Xu, you have only been here for a day, and you are called here right away, it is really hard for you!" Li Tai said.

"Your Majesty, if you have anything to do, please tell me. I have been so idle in Gaoling for a long time that my bones are a little sore!" Wei Xu said.

Li Tai smiled when he heard this, and said, "Since that's the case, then I won't be polite.

Your task is to organize unscrupulous people to patrol the small town of Tianjin as we did when we expanded Gaoling to absorb the rioters.

If anyone steals, if caught, throw them into the mine. As for whoever provokes troubles and destroys the peace of Tianjin Town, teach me a lesson to the death. The bottom line is still the same as before, as long as you don’t die! "

"I'll throw it into the mine after the lesson!" Wei Xu licked his lips with his tongue, and said impatiently, "I understand!"

"The rules and regulations should follow Chang'an's rules and regulations!" Li Tai cautioned.

To be honest, Wei Xu's bad guys sometimes take actions without seriousness, not to mention taking lives, but limbs and limbs are often severed.

One is because when Li Tai met the assassins and led them to enforce the law in Gaoling, they were more inclined to focus.

Another very important point is that this era seems to not take human life seriously.

Especially for those criminals, basically as long as they commit a crime, they are as if they were expelled from their citizenship.

Having said this, Li Tai continued, "The number of people you brought here is definitely not enough, first find a way to increase the number to 500.

The veterans are still the main ones. In addition, the people of Youzhou are tough, and there are many knights in Yanzhao, so they can recruit some good families.

Expanding the scale of bad guys to about 500 people is enough to patrol the entire Tianjin town. "

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I, Wei Xu, will complete the recruitment work within a month at the latest!" Wei Xu frankly promised Li Tai.

To be honest, Wei Xu himself brought more than 200 bad people, and recruiting a few hundred more people to reach the scale of 500 people is not difficult at all for Wei Xu.

It's just that Li Tai specified that only sons from good families are required, which makes the selection of bad people somewhat narrow when recruiting.

However, based on King Yan's habit of spending money like water all the time, he would basically give enough money.

And as long as the money is enough, most of the problems are not big problems for Wei Xu.

Li Tai nodded in satisfaction when he heard Wei Xu's answer. After all, Wei Xu has been doing this all along, and he doesn't expect him to become a city defender. After all, his task is more about maintaining stability.

To be honest, if there is a war, it still depends on Su Lie and his soldiers. As for the bad guys, it can only be said that nothing is better than nothing.

So Li Tai nodded, turned his eyes to Wang Zhenru, said to Wang Zhenru,
"Zhenru, your task is a bit heavy, I don't know if you are ready!"

"I also ask Your Majesty to give you instructions. I will definitely do my best to live up to your Majesty's entrustment!" Wang Zhenru immediately expressed his opinion after hearing Li Tai's words.

And Li Taidao, "Tianjin is a newly built town, and if it wants to develop, it needs to give full play to its location advantages.

I have to say that I chose this place because the most important thing is that this place is the only way for Yongji Canal.

As long as a Jinkou is established, the city of Youzhou can be linked up and the counties in Hebei can be linked down.

So the traffic here is very important, I think you should understand it! "

"Is the King of Yue planning to build a set of traffic arteries here to connect with Hebei Road?" Wang Zhenru replied after hearing Li Tai's words.

"Not only that, the land of Tianjin is located in the lower reaches of the Haihe River Basin, bordering the Bohai Sea in the east, Yanshan Mountain in the north, and Youzhou City in the west.

If you just simply contact Hebei Road, why not choose Hengzhou Dingzhen, which is the main road in the north. "

Li Tai smiled and said, "Because the role of Tianjin Town is not only to connect the north and south of Youzhou.

Internally, it connects to the canal, and externally, it connects to the Bohai Sea. In other words, there is only this place in the north, which can communicate with the inside and outside.

This is the true value of this small town in Tianjin! "

When Li Tai said this, he said to Wang Zhenru, "Speaking of which, you understand your mission now!"

"Construct an inward Jinkou in Yongji Canal.

Build a complete road system for the entire area around Youzhou.

Finally, find a suitable port near Tianjin to build a suitable port. This should be my task!

Right, Your Majesty? "

Following Li Tai's reminder, Wang Zhenru immediately understood his mission.

But after knowing his mission, he unconsciously felt his scalp go numb.

Because Wang Zhenru himself knew how long he had worked in the agricultural school and how many roads he had built.

Now Wang Zhenru feels that if he really perfects the whole system surrounding Tianjin Town, he will not die in office!
"Very good!" Li Tai put his elbow on Wang Zhenru's waist and said, "I think you know better than me how to arrange it.

It is almost a priority to build the mouth of the Yongji Canal and the port facing the sea.

Then let's work hard to build roads. Whether the small town of Tianjin can develop or not depends on you! "

"My lord, you put me under so much pressure!" Wang Zhenru sighed,

"I'll go back and calculate the overall scale, and I'll answer you when I have the results. By the way, how many people do we have!"

Li Tai replied: "Counting the people you brought, there should be 5000 people in Tianjin Town, which is a veritable town.

However, with your arrival, I can make Gao Jifu slightly relax his attitude towards alien races.

You need about [-] people from different ethnic groups. With your abilities, you should be able to control them! "

Wei Xu grinned and said, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate me and other bad people, we are all veterans from the battlefield.

Not to mention that one is against ten, but one Han is five Hu, and it is no problem to suppress these 5000 foreign races. "

"As long as we can communicate, Majesty, you can rest assured to hand over this alien to me.

Because when they get to work, they will soon stop thinking about it! "

Wang Zhenru also answered Li Tai calmly, obviously not paying attention to these alien races.

Li Tai was slightly relieved when he heard the two people's assurances, but he didn't say anything more.

With the arrival of a large number of grassroots managers, the entire Tianjin town finally began to operate like a small village.

Because the salt field that Li Chunfeng is in charge of occupies the vast majority of the labor force, every household is basically related to the salt field.

So this is not so much a small town as it is a big saltworks.

But now with the arrival of Wei Xu and Wang Zhenru, the various basic management personnel they brought with them began to fill in the various facilities of Tianjing Town in an orderly manner.

Various jobs and occupations, such as many shops, schools, medical buildings, etc., have also begun to appear in the small town of Tianjin, making Tianjin really develop normally like a city.

At this time, Li Tai also sent a message to Gao Jifu immediately, asking Gao Jifu to prepare about [-] people for him.

It's just that this time it was pointed out that both foreign races and local people can be used, which made Gao Jifu slightly curious.

However, Gao Jifu naturally would not object to Li Tai's request.

This time the requirements were relaxed, and Li Tai said that foreign races would also accept them, and even slaves of foreign races didn't care, they had to pay.

To be honest, such things as human trafficking are not uncommon in Datang.

The so-called slaves are basically no different from cattle and horses, and in this frontier area, it is very normal to buy and sell foreign slaves for labor.

Even the most famous special breeds of slaves in the Tang Dynasty were Kunlun slaves and Silla maidservants.

There is no such characteristic breed yet, but if you just want to buy and sell slaves directly, it is really not difficult, the difficulty is just spending money.

But for Li Tai, when he left Chang'an, he had [-] vehicles of silk. When he came to Youzhou, even the small town of Youzhou started to be built in a decent way, but he didn't even have [-] vehicles of silk. Not consumed cleanly.

For Li Tai, what he lacks is money, what a joke, what he lacks is people!

Therefore, Li Tai immediately went to Gao Jifu to buy foreign slaves, and Gao Jifu notified the temporary institutions set up by Honglu Temple in Youzhou. It's customary.

And Honglu Temple directly negotiated with the nobles of East Turkic, whether they were willing to trade their population with Datang.

Basically, these nobles of the East Turkic survivors will not object, after all, they are now confined to Chang'an.

Now I can earn some benefits by selling my tribe, so that I can enjoy this colorful world in Chang'an.

But the Eastern Turks were destroyed after all, and now the tribe that just emerged on the grassland is called Xue Yantuo.

With the demise of the Eastern Turks, the Xue Yantuo tribe began to grow wildly on the grassland, and many survivors of the Eastern Turks chose to join.

For some of the East Turkic nobles, if they don't sell their subordinates now, they may not even have the chance to sell.

And Tang Jian also made quick moves. After getting the tokens from these noble chiefs, he immediately organized people to transport them to Youzhou.

Because Tang Jian felt that with Li Tai's ability, this group of people should be used soon.

Of course, even if these people were traded from Honglu Temple, the price per person would not be less than [-] Wen.

If it wasn't for Li Tai's good background, it would definitely not be an easy task to eat more than 5000 people in one go.

However, the money made Honglu Temple realize that buying and selling people is a very profitable business, especially buying and selling people of different races.

It would definitely be condemned if the imperial court supported the trading of Chinese natives as slaves, but if the buying and selling were of foreigners, it seemed to be very humane.

In particular, Li Tai demonstrated that some laborious and potentially life-threatening corvees can be passed on to foreigners to deal with.

For a time, the demand for foreign slaves in the entire Tang Dynasty began to become strong.

Of course, these things definitely have nothing to do with Li Tai. In the end, Li Tai didn't abuse these slaves, and even if they learned Chinese, they would have the opportunity to become a glorious laborer in Datang if they understood Han Li.

I will naturalize them, and even give them Han names. How can I say that Li Tai is a great benevolent person, and the virtuous king of the Tang Dynasty is nothing more than that!

However, it doesn't matter what Li Tai thinks in his mind. With the arrival of these foreign labor force, the pace of development of the entire Tianjin town has accelerated again, and the vitality brought by the flow of people has made the entire Tianjin town extremely hot in this summer!

And Gao Jifu followed the various unstable factors in Youzhou to the small town of Tianjin. For a while, the whole Youzhou was naturally clean and peaceful, and the folk customs became simple.

Gao Jifu looked at the city of Youzhou that he governed, and felt that governing a state is not too difficult!
As August passed, Gao Jifu began to tour various places, urging the people to do a good job in the autumn harvest, and naturally came to the small town of Tianjin.

Tianjin Town will not be able to collect taxes this year and next year. After all, this is a newly established town, especially in a border area.

Basically, the imperial court will exempt the town from taxes for one or two years, and with luck, it can even reach three years.

Of course, for three years, it is generally necessary to go to the court to apply, but Li Tai can definitely get tax exemption if he applies.

However, Li Tai didn't do it for the time being. Anyway, he is the king of Yan, and the Youzhou border is exempt from taxes in town-level areas, so it's just a matter of himself.

In contrast, the most important thing is to allow the people to work actively.

And now when Gao Jifu came to Tianjin Town, the appearance of this Tianjin Town was completely beyond his expectation.

Originally, in his opinion, this newly developed small town should be just some straw houses surrounded by fences. Even though this small town has a population of nearly [-], most of them are of foreign races, so it must be a smelly place.

It would be great if King Yan could manage them well, not to mention that he had also stuffed in a lot of unstable factors from Youzhou.

But I didn't expect that what I saw at this moment was that the outer city wall was still being built, at least seven or eight meters high.

When entering the inside, one can see rows of tile-roofed houses arranged quite regularly under the city wall.

As for the planning of the entire city, as long as you go to the city tower to see it, you will find that the entire city is divided into five areas based on Chang'an City as a template.

Each area is also separated by a low wall like the one in Fangshi, but now each area is sparse.

1 people were thrown in here, which doesn't seem like a lot, but Gao Jifu was surprised by the astonishing building area.

Because the building area was obviously for a county with 10 people, Gao Jifu couldn't help being surprised, the ambition of King Yan was too great!

(End of this chapter)